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NCB - National Coal Board, later British Coal Corporation - 1574-1994
- A - Pre-Vesting Colliery Companies superseded by the National Coal Board - [1672]-1972
  - BUT - Butterley Company Colliery Offices - 1857-1960
    - 3 - Butterley Company Colliery Offices employment and personnel records - 1917-1960
      - 6 - Butterley Company Colliery Offices correspondence files on the training of staff, boys and mining students - 1928-1947

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Archive Reference / Library Class No.	NCB/A/BUT/3/6/16
Former Reference	N5/206
Title	Butterley Company correspondence file on the award of the Bircumshaw Prizes given to mining students at University College, Nottingham
Date	Feb 1939-Apr 1940
Description	Set up to mark the retirement of Joseph Bircumshaw from the Mining Agency of the Butterley Company, using money to purchase stock to be awarded to students. The award was discontinued in May 1940 for the remainder of the war.
Extent	1 file
Level	File
Repository	Derbyshire Record Office
Archive Creator	Butterley Company
Archive Creator	National Coal Board

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